this is a given of modern government. host: they ask you about stories that appear a day before they are announced. the -- explain the process for nid administration to get those stories out on their own terms. guest: when the administration has to make an appointment, they will often leak the story either to the associated press with an embargo of,, -- say, the next morning at 6:00 a.m., or to a major newspaper, "the new york times," for example, and they will do it often with a print medium before they do broadcast because that way they can get more of the substance out there. and this is a standard practice. we have all come to accept it. they do it